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later, the young plants, now fully developed and possessed 

 of a thick network of rootlets, are replanted in the open 

 ground. In this way the Japanese obtain from twenty to 

 thirty-two bushels of dressed rice to the acre in the poor 

 provinces, forty bushels in the better ones, and from sixty to 

 sixty-seven bushels in the best lands. The average, in six 

 rice growing states of North America, is at the same time only 

 nine and a half bushels.* 



In China, replanting is also in general use, and conse- 

 quently the idea has been circulated in France by M. Eugene 

 Simon and the late M. Toubeau, that replanted wheat could 

 be made a powerful means of increasing the crops in Western 

 Europe, t So far as I know, the idea has not yet been sub- 

 mitted to a practical test ; but when one thinks of the remark- 

 able results obtained by Hallett's method of planting; of 

 what the market gardeners obtain by replanting once and 

 even twice ; and of how rapidly the work of planting is done 

 by market gardeners in Jersey, one must agree that in re- 

 planted wheat we have a new opening worthy of the most 

 careful consideration. Experiments have not yet been made 

 in this direction ; but Prof. Grandeau, whose opinion I have 

 asked on this subject, wrote to me that he believes the 

 method must have a great future. Practical market gardeners 

 (Paris mar dicker) whose opinion I have asked, see, of course, 

 nothing extravagant in that idea. 



With plants yielding 1000 grains each and in the Capelle 

 experiment they yielded an average of 600 grains the yearly 

 wheat-food of one individual man (5.65 bushels or 265 Ibs.), 

 which is represented by from 5,000,000 to 5,500,000 grains, 

 could be grown on a space of 250 square yards; while for 

 an experienced hand replanting would represent no more than 

 ten to twelve hours' work. With a proper machine-tool, the 



* Dr. M. Fesca, Beitrdge zur Kenntniss der Japanesischen Landwirth- 

 schaft, Part ii., p. 33 (Berlin, 1893). The economy in seeds is also con- 

 siderable. While in Italy 250 kilogrammes to the hectare are sown, and 

 160 kilogrammes in South Carolina, the Japanese use only sixty kilo- 

 grammes for the same area. (Semler, Tropische Agrikultur, Bd. iii., 

 pp. 20-28.) 



t Eugene Simon, La cite chinoise (translated into English) ; Toubeau, 

 La repartition metrique des impots, 2 vols.. Paris (Guillaumin), 1880, 



